activity allocation
11activity-based costing — ABC method; = activity costing A system of cost allocation proposed by Professors Johnson and Kaplan in their book Relevance Lost: The Rise and Fall of Management Accounting (1987), in which they questioned accounting techniques based on… …
12activity — In activity based costing systems, any operation performed within an organization that causes costs to be incurred. Examples of activities therefore include processing an order, writing a letter, designing a product, and visiting a customer. The… …
13activity — In activity based costing systems, any operation performed within an organization that causes costs to be incurred. Examples of activities therefore include processing an order, writing a letter, designing a product, and visiting a customer. The… …
14Cost allocation — is a process of attributing cost to particular cost centers. For example the wage of the driver of the purchasing department can be allocated to the purchasing department cost center. It is not necessary to share the wage cost over several… …
15Task allocation and partitioning of social insects — Task allocation and partitioning refers to the way that tasks are chosen, assigned, subdivided, and coordinated (here, within a single colony of social insects). Closely associated are issues of communication that enable these actions to… …
16cost allocation — The process of assigning costs to one or more cost objects when it is not possible to trace a cost directly. Indirect costs (overheads) always have to be assigned to cost objects using cost allocations. The basis on which costs are assigned to… …
17cost allocation — The process of assigning costs to one or more cost objects when it is not possible to trace a cost directly. Indirect costs (overheads) always have to be assigned to cost objects using cost allocations. The basis on which costs are assigned to… …
18Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting Initiative — The Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative (NSI) is a program of the United States Government used to collect and share reports of suspicious activity by people in the United States.[1] [2] The Nationwide SAR Initiative (NSI)… …
19Percent allocation management module — A percent allocation management module, or PAMM, which may also be referred to as percent allocation money management, describes a software application used predominantly by foreign exchange market (forex) brokers to allow their clients to attach …
20arbitrary allocation — A cost allocation in which the allocation base used is not likely to give accurate costs. For example, the cost of a lecture is not significantly dependent on the number of students: a class of 10 students requires one lecturer for (say) one hour …
